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| Bell's Oberon Michigan, 5.8%
This American wheat ale is clean and drinkable, crisp and beautifully integrated.
Blue Point Summer Ale New York, 4.39%
Vibrant and fresh, with hints of lime, kumquat, and honeydew, this bright and flavorful part-wheat beer is one of the best summer seasonals available locally.
Goose Island Summertime Illinois, 4.7%
This fresh-tasting Klsch-style beer would be perfect with a lobster roll or a mustard-smeared bratwurst.
Boulevard Brewing Z?N Missouri, 4.4%
Make your Blue Moon-drinking friends try this Belgian-style witbier as soon as possible--this one is rich and creamy, with nice yeasty ale character and subtle fresh coriander flavor.
Peak Organic Summer Session Ale Maine, 5%
There's no warning on the bottle, but this is a pretty seriously hoppy beer!
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| Chris Robinson is a creature of music. Each night last week as he took the stage - barefoot, pleasantly rumpled and hirsute as hell - you could see the light in him flicker to brightness as he strapped on his guitar and turned to strike up his new band.
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood - 04.20.11 - by Josh Miller
Things were a bit tighter and more focused at The Independent, where The New Parish meandered a bit, albeit lovingly and with the best of intentions. One takes the ride the Brotherhood is offering, especially since much of what's being played is new material. It forces the listener to simply be present as the Brotherhood's rock gestalt gestates on stages. It's a brave choice but one that asks that the audience accept that this isn't pure entertainment.
After 20 years in the game, Robinson is still hell-bent on innovating, unearthing different aspects of himself as a songwriter and performer, and he thrives when surrounded by guys like this who understand on a cellular level that safe and simple isn't the way to roll with Chris. This isn't to imply that the Brotherhood shows aren't a ball, frequently tapping into rock's earliest energies and flooding the room with boogie juice, but this group is clearly questing after something. My gut says they haven't found it yet, but they're after it and the chase is bloody exciting to witness.
Neal Casal - 05.02.11 - by Josh Miller
A few key things to note:
-Neal Casal is just lethal in this band. Rarely has anyone given him this much free rein as a guitarist, and he's sparking off increasingly interesting stuff in Robinson's guitar work, too. Sinewy, bright and forceful and delicate by turns, Casal's playing rides in the meat of the music much of the time, not drawing undo attention to itself but grabbing the crowd by the lapels when he solos. He's a very different axe foil than Robinson has ever worked with before and definitely the most satisfying of his solo ventures.
Adam MacDougall, crowned with a dapper, utterly fitting top hat, plays with a more pronounced presence in the Brotherhood than in the Crowes. Here, his role is as much texture and tasty sonics as it is rippling piano solos (but he's got a few of those up his sleeve, too). There's a nifty electricity and far reaching approach to his work in the Brotherhood that spills rich colors over the music, rainbows then lined by the robust guitar frontline and gutbucket swinging rhythm team. Close your eyes and you can practically swim in it, and often the guy pouring the most liquid into the flow is MacDougall.
Adam MacDougall - 04.20.11 - by Josh Miller
-New material standouts include the skipping, exploratory “Star Or Stone," captivating, Sir Douglas Quintet-esque midtempo groover “Tulsa Yesterday" and “Vibration & Light Suite," which taps into the Grateful Dead's compartmentalized, long-form songcraft for what's shaping up to be this band's “Terrapin." It is but one of many gentle nods to the Dead and their ways, right down to a loosey-goosey feel at times, a thick pocket perfect for a wine ‘n' weed haze, something the many twirlers in Oakland picked up on in a big way. Covers of “Viola Lee Blues," “They Love Each Other" and “New Minglewood Blues" reinforce this impression, but it's both pleasing to the ear/spirit and not a real surprise given Robinson's connection to Phil Lesh & Friends and the Bay Area Dead scene. What's good is they aren't doing a rehash; their versions are definitely their own, and I particularly dug the messy, slightly off-kilter version of “Viola Lee" with Howlin Rain's Ethan Miller they whacked us with in Oakland on April 20.
This established, vintage jam stuff comes alive in their hands, and I think it helps that the rest of the band isn't as familiar with the tunes as their bandleader. This helps bypass any rote playing drawn from memory and nostalgia. It's an attitude they're applying to other cover material, including a simmering rendition of Dave Mason's “Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave" and an eerily fine fitting take on Dylan's “Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," which they debuted last week. There's a few oddball choices like the Everly Brothers' “Bird Dog" and Elvis' “Blue Suede Shoes," but I do appreciate the direct shout-out to rock's progenitors.
This is surely going somewhere, and there's talk of a studio album this summer. The path towards that somewhere is a lot of fun and excitingly different than the Crowes, a sound with the underlying energies of great California rock, past and present, a rolling stone for the people offered with an outstretched hand and a glinting eye on the oceanic horizon.
San Francisco Setlist
Set One: Little Lizzie Mae, New Minglewood Blues, Appaloosa, Bird Dog, Star Or Stone, Tomorrow Blues, Rosalee, Last Place That Love Lives
Set Two: 40 Days, I Ain't Hiding, Vibration & Light Suite, Viola Lee Blues, Star Crossed Lonely Sailor, If Your Wheel Don't Roll, Sunday Sound, Ride
Encore: Shouldn't Took More Than You Gave, Mississippi, You're On My Mind
Continue reading for more pics of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood in San Francisco...
Words by: Dennis Cook via http://www.jambase.com/Articles/49728/Chris-Robinson-Brotherhood-Bay-Area-Review-Pics
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| As California clamps a quarantine across the heart of Napa Valley and farmers ready their pesticides, nobody is winking anymore. Somehow a voracious grape-eating moth has found its way nonstop from Europe to the heart of the Napa Valley. A new Napa reality is setting in, that lax attitudes invite costly invasions of new pests that can threaten the country's most expensive and economically productive farmland.
The good news for the valley's grape growers is that with more than 5,000 traps set across the county, officials have yet to find more moths.
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| Wondering which type of pine wine rack is right for your needs? Just like choosing any other type of wine rack, there are a few points to consider.
The wood wine racks are probably the most popular type of wine racks because everyone loves the look of fine wood and they are very durable and last for many years in any setting. Whether you are a wine connoisseur or just enjoy having bottles of fine wine in your home, a wine storage is crucial to ensure the your wine is properly stored until you need it.
Aesthetic Appeal
A well constructed and placed wine rack can add appeal and even value to your home if done right. There are usually two preferences in wine racks, smaller general racks that can be placed in any closet or wine room, or custom wine racks can be made to conform to almost any space and any number of bottles. Below we examine different kinds of wine racks.
Oak Wood
A common choice for wood racks, oak is very strong and many pieces of furniture is make from the oak tree. Thus many wine lover choose this kind of wood because it will most likely match their house furniture. A smaller rack might be the best choice because the rack would be a companion piece to the other furniture.
Pine Wood
Pine is also versatile and can be finished in a wide variety of colors, or clear-coated to highlight the clean, clear graining of the wood.
Cedar Wood
Aesthetic Appeal
California Redwood
By far the most superior wood to build wine racks out of is that of the California Redwood. Not only does the wood give a beautiful and unique aesthetic with its mixture of cram and pink rose tones, it also is light yet strong.
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For many, wine is a good addition to a fine meal, or a companion piece to a gathering. Often times these same people do not realize that the wine that they drink has very real health benefits. Below are some ways that moderate wine intake can positively affect one's health.
1. Kidney Stones
A new study from Harvard University researcher Gary Curhan and colleagues, using more than 81,000 women participants drawn from the Nurses' Health Study, found that an increase in fluid intake significantly reduces risk for kidney stones and that risk reduction was greatest for wine compared with other beverages. Out of 17 beverages, including tea, coffee, fruit juices, milk and water, wine was associated with the highest reduction in risk - 59%.
2. Artery Deposits
New Data from the Bruneck Study (Italy) was reported by Australian and Italian researchers in the May 1998 issue of Stroke. They conclude that light to moderate alcohol consumers faced a lower risk of atherosclerosis (early atherogenesis) than either abstainers or heavy drinkers. Arteriosclerosis, the gradual build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries, is the leading contributor to coronary heart disease and fatal heart attacks.
3. Cancer
Among moderate drinkers, those who consumed at least 30% of their alcohol intake in the form of wine were at slightly lower risk than non-drinkers for Upper Digestive Tract cancers. They speculate that compounds found in wine, such as resveratrol, may exert powerful anticarcinogenic effects that protect against any cancer-causing effects of alcohol. “Wine contains several components with possible anticarcinogenic effects - these may exert their action locally in parallel with the possible effect of ethanol.”
Wine, when consumed moderately and intelligently, has the ability to increase one's overall health and longevity. The benefits are so vast that wine should be a daily rityal!
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